WW1

Timelinehttp://melbourneblogger.blogspot.com/2010/02/ww1-paintings-in-fine-arts-society.htmlHistory books record that World War I started when the nations went to war to avenge the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, the heir to the Habsburg throne, on June 28, 1914.

1914
	June 28th	Francis Ferdinand assassinated at Sarajevo
	July 5th	Kaiser William II promised German support for Austria against Serbia
	July 28th	Austria declared war on Serbia
	August 1st	Germany declared war on Russia
	August 3rd	Germany declared war on France and invaded Belgium. Germany had to implement the Schlieffen Plan.
	August 4th	Britain declared war on Germany
	August 23rd	The BEF started its retreat from Mons. Germany invaded France.
	August 26th	Russian army defeated at Tannenburg and Masurian Lakes.
	September 6th	Battle of the Marne started
	October 18th	First Battle of Ypres
	October 29th	Turkey entered the war on Germany’s side. Trench warfare started to dominate the Western Front.
1915
	January 19th	The first Zeppelin raid on Britain took place
	February 19th	Britain bombarded Turkish forts in the Dardanelles
	April 25th	Allied troops landed in Gallipoli
	May 7th	The “Lusitania” was sunk by a German U-boat
	May 23rd	Italy declared war on Germany and Austria
	August 5th	The Germans captured Warsaw from the Russians
	September 25th	Start of the Battle of Loos
	December 19th	The Allies started the evacuation of Gallipoli
1916
	January 27th	Conscription introduced in Britain
	February 21st	Start of the Battle of Verdun
	April 29th	British forces surrendered to Turkish forces at Kut in Mesopotamia
	May 31st	Battle of Jutland
	June 4th	Start of the Brusilov Offensive
	July 1st	Start of the Battle of the Somme
	August 10th	End of the Brusilov Offensive
	September 15th	First use en masse of tanks at the Somme
	December 7th	[[../david_lloyd_george.htm|Lloyd George]] becomes British Prime Minister
1917
	February 1st	Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare campaign started
	April 6th	USA declared war on Germany
	April 16th	France launched an unsuccessful offensive on the Western Front
	July 31st	Start of the Third Battle at Ypres
	October 24th	Battle of Caporetto – the Italian Army was heavily defeated
	November 6th	Britain launched a major offensive on the Western Front
	November 20th	British tanks won a victory at Cambrai
	December 5th	Armistice between Germany and Russia signed
	December 9th	Britain captured Jerusalem from the Turks
1918
	March 3rd	The [[../treaty_of_brest-litovsk.htm|Treaty of Brest-Litovsk]] was signed between Russia and Germany.
	March 21st	Germany broke through on the Somme
	March 29th	Marshall Foch was appointed Allied Commander on the Western Front
	April 9th	Germany started an offensive in Flanders
	July 15th	Second Battle of the Marne started. The start of the collapse of the German army
	August 8th	The advance of the Allies was successful
	September 19th	Turkish forces collapsed at Megiddo
	October 4th	Germany asked the Allies for an armistice
	October 29th	Germany’s navy mutinied
	October 30th	Turkey made peace
	November 3rd	Austria made peace
	November 9th	Kaiser William II abdicated
	November 11th	Germany signed an armistice with the Allies – the official date of the end of World War One.
	Post-war – 1919
	January 4th	Peace conference met at Paris
	June 21st	The surrendered German naval fleet at Scapa Flow was scuttled.
	June 28th	The [[../treaty_of_versailles.htm|Treaty of Versailles]] was signed by the Germans.

WORLD WAR I

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THE ROSE OF NO-MANS LAND
I've seen some beautiful flowers
Grow in life's garden fair
I've spent some wonderful hours
Lost in their fragrance rare
But I have found another
Wondrous beyond compare....

There's a rose that grows in no-man's land
And it's wonderful to see
Though its sprayed with tears, it will live for years
In my garden of memory

It's the one red rose the soldier knows
It's the work of the Master's hand
'Neath the War's great curse stands a Red Cross nurse
She's the rose of no-man's land

It's the one red rose the soldier knows
It's the work of the Master's hand
'Neath the War's great curse stands a Red Cross nurse
She's the rose of no-man's land


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Countries	Total Mobilized	Killed & Died	Wounded	Prisoners & Missing	Total Casualties	Casualties % of Mobilized
Allied Powers
Russia	12,000,000	1,700,000	4,950,000	2,500,000	9,150,000	76.3
France	8,410,000	1,357,800	4,266,000	537,000	6,160,800	76.3
British Empire	8,904,467	908,371	2,090,212	191,652	3,190,235	35.8
Italy	5,615,000	650,000	947,000	600,000	2,197,000	39.1
United States	4,355,000	126,000	234,300	4,500	364,800	8.2
Japan	800,000	300	907	3	1,210	0.2
Romania	750,000	335,706	120,000	80,000	535,706	71.4
Serbia	707,343	45,000	133,148	152,958	331,106	46.8
Belgium	267,000	13,716	44,686	34,659	93,061	34.9
Greece	230,000	5,000	21,000	1,000	17,000	11.7
Portugal	100,000	7,222	13,751	12,318	33,291	33.3
Montenegro	50,000	3,000	10,000	7,000	20,000	40.0
Total	42,188,810	5,152,115	12,831,004	4,121,090	22,104,209	52.3
Central Powers
Germany	11,000,000	1,773,700	4,216,058	1,152,800	7,142,558	64.9
Austria-Hungary	7,800,000	1,200,000	3,620,000	2,200,000	7,020,000	90.0
Turkey	2,850,000	325,000	400,000	250,000	975,000	34.2
Bulgaria	1,200,000	87,500	152,390	27,029	266,919	22.2
Total	22,850,000	3,386,200	8,388,448	3,629,829	15,404,477	67.4
Grand Total	65,038,810	8,538,315	21,219,452	7,750,919	37,508,686	57.6

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